By Tom Breihan
on July 26, 2011 at 5:35 p.m. EDT

Vivian Girls' new video for "Take It as It Comes", a track from their 2011 album Share the Joy, renders the song's girl-group pocket melodrama in vivid color. Director Travis Peterson sure put a lot of work into the awesomely retro set design. Watch the video below, or at Pitchfork.tv.

Also below, we've got the Vivian Girls' tour dates; they've got a bunch of shows coming up in Europe and North America, including a fall tour with Widowspeak.

By Larry Fitzmaurice
on February 11, 2011 at 11:25 a.m. EST

Brooklyn garage-popsters Vivian Girls have a new album, Share the Joy, coming out April 12 via Polyvinyl. Now, there's a video for the album's first single, "I Heard You Say". In the clip, the Girls alternately don matching dresses in a hotel room and fur coats in a snowy setting, singing along to the words of the song. There's also some fire effects that are layered on top of the clip. Watch it below, or over at Pitchfork.tv-- check out the band's tour dates, too.

By Larry Fitzmaurice
on January 31, 2011 at 4:05 p.m. EST

Back in September, we reported that Brooklyn garage-pop outfit Vivian Girls had signed to Polyvinyl and were working on a new album for 2011, Share the Joy. Well, that album now has a release date, April 12. And that's the homespun-looking cover art above.

The album was recorded at Rear House, the studio run by Woods' Jarvis Taveniere (who engineered the album as well). You can download a track from the album, "I Heard You Say", right here (sharing your e-mail address is optional). We've got the album's tracklist for you below, as well as dates for the band's tour with Black Lips.

By Tom Breihan
on January 24, 2011 at 9:00 a.m. EST

Next month, garage-punk rabble-rousersBlack Lips and bash-pop sirens Vivian Girls will both play the Bruise Cruise, a nautical fuzz-rock festival that'll take its partiers from Miami to the Bahamas and back again. And when that voyage ends, the two bands will keep it moving, heading out on a North American tour together in April. We've got tour dates for both bands listed below.

As previously reported, Black Lips have been working on their new album with super-producer Mark Ronson; Lips frontman Jared Swilley told us a bit about the collaboration here. Ronson recently posted a Facebook video of the dudes in the band playing around with gigantic slabs of raw meat, the sound of which they are apparently about to record for a song that is actually about raw meat. Watch the video here, and see if you can guess the punchline before it loads.